UMPC: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC

HP starts selling an EEE-like PC.
Take a look at their online shop. Here the details:

VIA C7-M ULV processor (1.0 GHz, 128 KB L2 cache, 400 MHz FSB
512 MB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
4 GB Flash Module
8.9-inch diagonal WXGA
Broadcom 802.11b/g

With SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 it costs just 499$. This is really a competitor for the EEE....

Oracle Clusterware

I found a nice tip about Oracle clusterware on this blog.
The scope of the article is that you can use Oracle clusterware on Oracle Unbreakable Linux without an additional license, but i found the following paragraph very interesting:

Now you can download the clusterware and use it as an extension of your Linux to make virtually any application highly available even without having an Oracle Database Server.

If you start searching on otn.oracle.com:documentation for some information about this, you will not find anything. But here the white paper from Oracle, which explains the concept making applications high available with application vips and Oracle clusterware.

The ability to protect non-Oracle applications from failure was not part of Oracle Database 10g Release 1. With the advent of Oracle Database 10g Release 2, non-Oracle applications running on a cluster can benefit from the same level of protection as existing Oracle Database processes.

and

Customers and Oracle partners can now place their own applications under the management and protection of Oracle Clusterware, such that they restart on process failure or failover to another node on node failure.

With this enhancement Oracle provides an easy way to provide high availability not only for the database but also for its application server and the best:
You must only maintain one software stack...

UMPC: Elitegroup ECS G10IL

Elitegroup launches a EEE like PC. Take a look at this announcement. Here are the specifications:

CPU: Diamondville
Chipset: Intel 945 GSE (w/o S-Video) + ICH7M
Operating System: Windows XP/Linux
Memory Slot: 1 slot up to 2GB
LCD Size: 8.2"/10.2"
Webcam: 1.3 mega pixel CCD
Storage: HDD/SSD
Battery: 4 cell/6 cell
Dimension: 259 x 180 x 28.5 (mm)

This UMPC should be available in the next few months...

SPARC IIIi: End of Life for SUN Fire V125, V215, V245 and V445

SUN Microsystems announced end of life (EOL) for V125, V215, V245 and V445. For SUN Fire servers powered by UltraSPARC IIIi last shipment is July 11, 2008. After this date only SUN Netra servers with UltraSPARC IIIi processors will be available.
If you are interested in the SPARC family follow this link to wikipedia.
SUN provides several upgrade paths:

Move to UltraSPARC T1 or T2 if single thread performance is not critical (e.g.:Sun Fire T1000 Server, Sun Fire T2000 Server)

Move to SPARC IV+/IV single thread performance is critical and you have to stay on SPARC architecture (e.g.: Sun Fire V490 Server, Sun Fire E2900 Server)

Move to AMD Opterion if single thread performance is critical and you only have to stay on Solaris (e.g.: Sun Fire X4200 Server, Sun Fire X4200 Server)